Traité élémentaire de chimie : présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les découvertes modernes : avec figures

by: Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794; Lavoisier, Marie-Anne-Pierrette, 1758-1836, engraver; Papillon, Jean-Michel, 1698-1776, wood-engraver; Brown, Samuel, former owner. DSI; Chardon, Jean-François-Louis, 1739?-ca. 1795, printer; Cuchet, Gaspard-Joseph, d. 1833, publisher

Publication date: 1789

Topics: Early works to 1800, Chemistry

Publisher: A Paris : Chez Cuchet ...

Collection: biodiversity; smithsonian

Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: French

Volume: t. 1 (1789)

statement of responsibility: par M. Lavoisier

Paged continuously

Plates engraved by "Paulze Lavoisier" (that is, Mme. Lavoisier)

Title vignettes

Some of the head-and tail-pieces are signed by Papillon

Pagination of each tome: t. 1. xliv, 322 p., [2] folded leaves of plates (tables); t. 2. viij, [1], 324-653, [3] p., plates I-XIII

There are two unnumbered, folded leaves of plates that are tables, including one inserted in t. 1 facing p. 203, and the other in t. 1 facing p. 295

Fautes à corriger, & additions: p. [654-655]

Includes index

citation/reference: Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 43

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.)

SCDIRB copy (t. 1, 39088007289200; t. 2, 39088007289192) has stamp on t.p. of each tome: Samuel Brown Collection; Library, U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution Feb 26 1891. Accession number for both tomes: 138573

SCDIRB copy has a later brown buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine and red edges; bound by Heckman bindery, June, 1958